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  • LongestRoadLongestRoad Posts: 477
    rgambs said:
    And some, I assume, are good people.  Jeez, man.  Fear leads to hate leads to anger leads to the dark side of racism browser.

    Nobody is twisting your words dude, they are responding to the implications of your statements.  That's how debate works.  Another way debate and discussion is supposed to work is that you provide evidence for your claims...
    lol twist. Where did you read I said some.
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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,236
    HaHa No but if you f'n liberals stopped fighting for the rights of convicted scumbag murdering rapist drug dealing gang members then maybe it would be harder for them to get back out on the streets.And sanother thing, stop making their time in prison comfortable. 
    Why do you use "liberals" as some kind of slur. How old are you?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,188
    Replacement  votes?  :o
  • LongestRoadLongestRoad Posts: 477
    Why do you use "liberals" as some kind of slur. How old are you?
    As many times as i've heard Republican, and I am in no way a republican used as a slur on these boards makes your statement that much more funny. 
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,855
    mace1229 said:
    I see a lot disputing the crim rates of illegals. When looking for myself it seemed most resources tried to say the same thing, but did so by completing ignoring the population difference.
    Of what I read those sources don’t factor in the difference of populations. If 5% of the populations commits 10% of the crime, you can’t claim they commit less crime.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/two-charts-demolish-the-notion-that-immigrants-here-illegally-commit-more-crime/
    Another link claiming illegals commit less crime, but again ignores the population difference in the data. When you consider the population difference it’s a completely different result.

    https://kriskobach.com/breitbart-columns/breitbart-columns-correcting-the-record-on-illegal-aliens-and-crime/
    This article states that illegals make up 14% of federal prisons, but only 3-6% of the population.


    Now I don’t think most immigrants, legal or not, are bad people. I think Trumps quote should be flipped, most are good, and I assume some are bad.
    This is just my input on the debate over level of crime that I saw happening.


    They make up a higher percentage of the federal prison population because immigration offences are federal offences. The majority are simply in there for immigration related reasons.
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  • LongestRoadLongestRoad Posts: 477
    What correction?

    This one(?):

    Update: Time is standing by its cover. Editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal  says in a statement: “The June 12 photograph of the 2-year-old Honduran girl became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason: Under the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in turn resulted in the separation of children and parents. Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment.”
    Meaning they will misrepresent in order to make a point against a valid issue. That is not a good practice. Now it makes you think, what else have they misrepresented to make a point. 
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,855
    edited June 2018
    Well I guess it does look like they have a lower crime rate than we do in those countries considering the governments of those countries are in partnership with all the gang drug dealing traffickers. They only arrest the honest people there to shake em down for their money or to enslave them. That's why we have so many people trying to get into this country. Wake up. Don't defend garbage gang members and terrorists. Your view is laughable. Talk to the people they have pimped out begging for money. I pray to God there is some way that this country will be able to help the good people from those countries but we can't let just anyone in without proper vetting and we don't have the resources to support the number of people coming over. We fix one issue and it creates another issue. I don't know what we can do short of going to war with those countries to help their people take it back over so the corruption and crimes against them stop.

    No, you've misunderstood the information again. Immigrants to the US, including those from the countries you seem to demonize, have a lower crime rate IN THE US. We're not talking about the crime rate in their country of origin.

    And as to your last point, the US has such a good track record in improving countries by going to war with them. 
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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,236
    As many times as i've heard Republican, and I am in no way a republican used as a slur on these boards makes your statement that much more funny. 
    Did you hear "republican" or "f'n republican" ?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Do you think it's okey to seperate young chilren from their mothers/fathers, as been done?
    Hmmn, tough question...

    What does DCFS do to children and parents that don't want to pump them full of vaccines?
  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,236
    unsung said:
    Hmmn, tough question...

    What does DCFS do to children and parents that don't want to pump them full of vaccines?
    Have you ever answered a question straight on this board?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,562
    edited June 2018
    unsung said:
    Hmmn, tough question...

    What does DCFS do to children and parents that don't want to pump them full of vaccines?
    Spirtual Chaos is right.  The question is what do YOU think and where is YOUR moral center.
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    Again, I assign the blame on the parents.  The US govt is responsible as far as allowing incentives to be handed out to the people illegally coming here.  


  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,562
    unsung said:
    Again, I assign the blame on the parents.  The US govt is responsible as far as allowing incentives to be handed out to the people illegally coming here.  


    So you have no moral or ethical opinion on the subject?  You can blame the parents all you want, but then children are hurt.  Is that okay with you because it's the parents' fault?
  • LongestRoadLongestRoad Posts: 477
    mace1229 said:
    I see a lot disputing the crim rates of illegals. When looking for myself it seemed most resources tried to say the same thing, but did so by completing ignoring the population difference.
    Of what I read those sources don’t factor in the difference of populations. If 5% of the populations commits 10% of the crime, you can’t claim they commit less crime.


     You have to disregard statistics, logic and facts for their view. 
  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,236
     You have to disregard statistics, logic and facts for their view. 
    So what do you think of Fox News?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • LongestRoadLongestRoad Posts: 477

    They make up a higher percentage of the federal prison population because immigration offences are federal offences. The majority are simply in there for immigration related reasons.
    Are you factoring in the crimes that some commited that put them in prison awaiting deportation?
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,855
    Are you factoring in the crimes that some commited that put them in prison awaiting deportation?

    Like I said, the majority counted in this data did not commit any other crimes than their immigration status.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,144
    HaHa No but if you f'n liberals stopped fighting for the rights of convicted scumbag murdering rapist drug dealing gang members then maybe it would be harder for them to get back out on the streets.And sanother thing, stop making their time in prison comfortable. 
    Lovely- so now we're fuckin' liberals?  (Yeah, we all know what "f'n" means).  That's such an endearing term.  I think from now on when people ask me if I'm on the right or the left I'll say, "Just call me a "fuckin' liberal." 

    Who here is "rights of convicted scumbag murdering rapist drug dealing gang members"?  We need to know.  Smoke 'em out!

    "stop making their time in prison comfortable".  Right.  Let me think about this.  I hear people all the time trying to decide if they should take a cruise on there vacation or spend a few years in the state penitentiary.  Yeah, tough choice, for sure.

    And remember what were her for folks.  To protect out scumbag murdering rapist drug dealing gang member.  God bless their pointy little heads.  


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  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,236
    I think "liberal" is a funny word. Because in the US it seems to be looked on as being socialist or communist or whatever.

    In Sweden liberals are looked on as middle/right.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • mace1229mace1229 Posts: 9,693

    Like I said, the majority counted in this data did not commit any other crimes than their immigration status.
    From what I can tell illegals being sent to federal prison in large numbers is new with this zero tolerance policy. They just weren’t sent to federal prison before. So those numbers aren’t just ones in prison for crossing the boarder.
    Is that not correct? I couldn’t find anything said said otherwise.
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,855
    mace1229 said:
    From what I can tell illegals being sent to federal prison in large numbers is new with this zero tolerance policy. They just weren’t sent to federal prison before. So those numbers aren’t just ones in prison for crossing the boarder.
    Is that not correct? I couldn’t find anything said said otherwise.

    That's not correct. Wherever undocumented immigrants were taken into custody it's considered a federal incarceration.
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  • LongestRoadLongestRoad Posts: 477
    So what do you think of Fox News?
    I already talked about this the other day. They should be called Fox Opinion and CNN Opinion. Although from watching many different news stations, I would say Fox has an edge over CNN only for some actual real news thrown in. CNN only discusses their complete dislike for the President pretty much 24 hours a day. You barely see any other news on that station anymore. 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,144
    Fox has real news?  :lol:

    But what do I know.  I'm a fuckin' liberal!  :smiley: 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,855
    Sorry - to clarify my comment above, because I wrote it too quickly - whenever undocumented immigrants are taken into custody due to their immigration status, it’s considered a federal incarceration, which means that even if it’s only briefly, it’s counted  Also, by no means was it always brief, even before this current issue. 
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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,855
    I already talked about this the other day. They should be called Fox Opinion and CNN Opinion. Although from watching many different news stations, I would say Fox has an edge over CNN only for some actual real news thrown in. CNN only discusses their complete dislike for the President pretty much 24 hours a day. You barely see any other news on that station anymore. 
    Well, that flies in the face of the researched and documented differences in presentation of true statements between Fox and CNN. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Fox does not come out ahead. 
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  • LongestRoadLongestRoad Posts: 477
    Well, that flies in the face of the researched and documented differences in presentation of true statements between Fox and CNN. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Fox does not come out ahead. 
    It's all a matter of opinion. Neither should be called news station. The majority is opinions on their political stance on those two in particular. it doesn't stop just at those two though. You have to weed out a lot to get to some topics other than political views. 
  • Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,236
    It's all a matter of opinion. Neither should be called news station. The majority is opinions on their political stance on those two in particular. it doesn't stop just at those two though. You have to weed out a lot to get to some topics other than political views. 
    Haha. Kellyanne, is that you pumpkin?
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    mrussel1 said:
    So you have no moral or ethical opinion on the subject?  You can blame the parents all you want, but then children are hurt.  Is that okay with you because it's the parents' fault?
    Don't blame me, blame the parents.  I did not bring them to a place where there are consequences.

    My sympathy with the children is that they are being used as political pawns.  
  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,855
    unsung said:
    Don't blame me, blame the parents.  I did not bring them to a place where there are consequences.

    My sympathy with the children is that they are being used as political pawns.  
    Do you factor in that most of these individuals and families are fleeing violence severe enough that facing these potential consequences seems like the better option?
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  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,562
    unsung said:
    Don't blame me, blame the parents.  I did not bring them to a place where there are consequences.

    My sympathy with the children is that they are being used as political pawns.  
    In other words, you don't a damn what happens to them, is that right?  Because it's their parents' fault?  Or do you care about their well being?  Either you do or don't.  It's a pretty simple question.  
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